Jane Wattenberg
Jane Wattenberg is an author/illustrator of photo-illustrated books for children including a hip-hop adaptation of HENNY-PENNY, Children’s Choice winner NEVER CRY WOOF!, Mrs. Mustard’s BABY FACES and Mrs. Mustard’s BEASTLY BABIES. School Library Journal reviewed her photo-illustrations for Edward Lear's, THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO saying these “lavishly illustrated collages using photographs and painted images… should not be missed.”
As an independent researcher, longtime collector and photo-historian of photo-illustrated books for children, Jane lectures on photography in children’s books: the books and their photo-illustrators.
Her chapter, PICTUREBOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHY can be found in the Routledge Companion to Picturebooks, published 2018.
Her lecture, Snap! Click! Pop! Photography in Children’s Books 1890-1980, explores historical children’s photobooks, from documents to dreams.
Inspiration comes from her Internship with Robert Sobieszek at the George Eastman House during her MFA years; from having been the recipient of a Princeton Fellowship for research in the Cotsen Library with Andrea Immel; from her friendship with photographers, John Pfahl and Larry Sultan; and from the pages of the mostly unknown (as yet) photographers on the pages of children’s photobooks.
Jane is presently at work on a book highlighting fantasy and surrealism in children’s photographic picturebooks.
Also a beekeeper and urban farmer, Jane lives in San Francisco.
To read more about Jane and her children’s books, please visit: www.janewattenberg.com
As an independent researcher, longtime collector and photo-historian of photo-illustrated books for children, Jane lectures on photography in children’s books: the books and their photo-illustrators.
Her chapter, PICTUREBOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHY can be found in the Routledge Companion to Picturebooks, published 2018.
Her lecture, Snap! Click! Pop! Photography in Children’s Books 1890-1980, explores historical children’s photobooks, from documents to dreams.
Inspiration comes from her Internship with Robert Sobieszek at the George Eastman House during her MFA years; from having been the recipient of a Princeton Fellowship for research in the Cotsen Library with Andrea Immel; from her friendship with photographers, John Pfahl and Larry Sultan; and from the pages of the mostly unknown (as yet) photographers on the pages of children’s photobooks.
Jane is presently at work on a book highlighting fantasy and surrealism in children’s photographic picturebooks.
Also a beekeeper and urban farmer, Jane lives in San Francisco.
To read more about Jane and her children’s books, please visit: www.janewattenberg.com